It's difficult to assign any reason for the failure.

失败的原因很难确定。

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But sustaining the momentum will be difficult-for all the reasons why Project Tiger petered out into failure.

但是要延续这一势头并不容易，其原因和当初“老虎计划”何以无疾而终并无二致。

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These facts make a code failure due to double-checked locking very difficult to track down.

这些事实将导致代码失败，原因是双重检查锁定难于跟踪。

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Interesting. Even though the market seized up very dramatically afterwards and we had some of the most difficult short-term financial consequences of that failure?

有意思，尽管市场严重失灵,我们面临着,许多短期的,非常严重的后果？

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